A few select quotes from the president whose primary concern is not instilling fear or panic in the American public. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
“I'm the leader of the country, I can't be jumping up and down and scaring people,” Trump told Hannity last night. “I don't want to scare people.”
So Jonathan Turley wrote over the weekend that "Bump has repeatedly spread false stories and then refused to accept the falsity of his own earlier claims, even after most of the media have admitted the errors."
The just-released transcript of the Devon Archer testimony just completely eviscerates what Comer and Jordan were saying on TV. Totally embarrassing.
Here's how it works. In the headline, Fox suggests that Hunter used Joe Biden. In the copy, they accurately indicate that he used "the name," which was Archer's point. But people don't read the copy.
Whether or not Archer was sworn in, he was testifying under penalty of perjury because you can't lie when giving testimony to Congress.
A particularly shoddy effort to undermine fact-checkers — a thread
So you remember Stephen Miller. Out of the White House, he is now the president of something called America First Legal. This afternoon, he hyped some of its work. 1/
The group obtained a list of fact-checkers with whom the State Department was apparently consulting. These people are scare-quoted as "journalists." 2/
Then each is disparaged separately, starting with Politifact's Angie Holan. She is described as being "deeply intertwined in the Poynter network and lectures and teaches others the ways of censorship" — Millerspeak for pointing out the falseness of false information. 3/
They thought the checkmark was the cachet, not the celebrity status that warranted the checkmark. Then Musk obliterated the connection between celebrity and cachet.
Now they want celebrities back because they realize the cachet is gone.
But to make it stupider, they think celebrities won’t come back out of spite, because they don’t want to share their cachet — a recognition that the cachet was never inherent to the checkmark!
It’s like a club invited celebs to drink free to boost business and they did and then the club owner was like “now everyone pays” so the celebs bounced. Now the club is just people who are mad they paid for a membership but they’re mad at the celebs for leaving not the owner.